Port Orchard Independent, May 30, 2014

May 30, 2014 edition of the Port Orchard Independent

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A Section
Editorial
Robert Meadows
Scene & Heard
Sports
Legal Notices
Mary Colborn
Obituaries
Jesse Beals/Staff Photo
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SEE UPSETS, PAGE A2
More than 135 people turned out near the shores of the
Puget Sound for the opening of the new shellfish restoration hatchery at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Manchester Research
Station on May 22.
Representatives from federal, state, local and tribal
organizations attended the event and ribbon cutting for
the Kenneth K. Chew Center for Shellfish Research and
Restoration. District 26 State Rep. Jan Angel, along with
Kitsap County Commissioner Charlotte Garrido and Port
Orchard Mayor Tim Matthes were in attendance.
The $775,000 facility will have three full-time employees,
but several part-time projects are being planned in several
months.
The hatchery is a result of NOAA’s National Shellfish
Initiative and the state’s Shellfish Initiative, the first state to
pass such an effort.
In June 2011, NOAA launched a National Aquaculture
Policy that included a National Shellfish Initiative to
increase shellfish aquaculture for commercial and
Connor Morris, top photo, runs through a “splat station”
during the first half of the Seagull Splat 5K Run on May
24. Ryan DeMars of the Red Dog Saloon, bottom left,
prepares some chicken wings for judges for the Seagull
Wings Cook-off. Megan Bauer, bottom right, calls out
for the birds during the annual Seagull Calling Contest.
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By CHRIS CHANCELLOR
Staff Writer
The South Kitsap School District is a
little closer to closing its $2.9 million deficit for the upcoming school year.
Terri Patton, assistant superintendent
for business and support services, said at
Wednesday’s school board meeting that
the district won’t replace five full-time
custodians who left the district after the
last school year.
She said that will save the district
$250,000.
Patton said the deficit stems from unforeseen circumstances when the district
presented its last levy to voters in 2004.
She cited escalating teacher salaries
SEE SCHOOL, PAGE A2
and pension rates along with inflation as
issues.
In addition to the money saved on custodians, Patton said the district will dip
into its reserve fund for $1.72 million.
She said that’s not all bad because the
district saved more than it anticipated in
its last fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31.
Patton said they also will save through
not filling other vacant positions in the
district, and through cutting expenses
on supplies.
The board unanimously adopted the
budget.
Patton warned in previous meetings
that the “hard decisions” likely won’t end
Custodians won’t be replaced, $1.72
million will be taken from reserve fund.
Dannie Oliveaux/Staff Photos
activities she reported as stemming from
Keehn’s attempts to operate a business
out of her home.
Weaver said following an April 11 hearing with the city’s Hearing Examiner, certain conditions were placed on Keehn’s
permit to mitigate Cronan’s concerns before she would be allowed to operate her
business.
“(Keehn) has addressed all but one of
those conditions, with the last being the
letter from the (Kitsap County) Health
Department,” Weaver said, explaining
that Keehn’s current sewer facilities are
SEE HATCHERY, A25
Wrong-way crash
kills Tacoma man
ed the man killed in the
crash was Delfin Ignacio,
a 45-year-old competitive
body builder from Tacoma.
A check of court records
showed that he had been
arrested for drunk driving
twice before, in 2003 and
2009.
Troopers
reported
they received a call about
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chasing it last spring.
City Development Director James
Weaver confirmed that Keehn received
a conditional-use permit to operate a onechair hair salon out of her home, which
he described as “pretty innocuous” and
something that doesn’t typically reach
“the level of intensive use,” as far as
impacts on the neighborhood are concerned.
However, since November of 2007,
Cronan has filed multiple complaints with
the city regarding traffic, noise and other
SEE NEIGHBORS, PAGE A2
Realtor Bryan Petro
announced May 22 that
Myhre’s, located at the corner of Bay Street and Sidney
Avenue, has been sold.
Petro, of Windermere Real
Estate in Port Orchard, said
the building was purchased
for $475,000 by Abadan LLC
and Seattle real estate investor
Mansour Samadpour.
Since the building went on
the market earlier this year,
Petro said there was a lot of
interest in the 15,000-squarefoot building that once was
home to a popular downtown restaurant, Myhre’s.
Petro said one stipulation
in the purchase of the building was that two plaques —
one on the Bay Street and
Sidney Avenue corners of
the building — that will recognize the Myhre-Rylander
Building will be placed.
He added that the buyer
paid all the property taxes
and closing costs.
The restaurant has been
closed since July 2011 when a
fire gutted the building.
Petro said the restaurant
opened in the 1930s and the
original wood structure was
destroyed during a 1963 fire.
Dick Rylander then took
over his family business and
replaced the building with a
brick structure.
The Rylander family (Myhre’s Inc.) repossessed
the building on Jan. 3 during
a trustees’ sale at the Kitsap
County
Administration
Building.
The property reverted
back to the Rylanders after
no bidder showed up for the
sale.
John Lora and Melinda
By DANNIE OLIVEAUX
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commissioner race;
Dalton, Danielson
in judicial contest.
Editor
Expectations were turned on their head
in two Kitsap County political contests
during Tuesday night’s primary election,
as the perceived front-runners came in
third and were disqualified in their respective races.
Republican Tim Matthes drew the most
votes in the South Kitsap commissioner’s
race, followed by Democrat Charlotte
Garrido.
Monty Mahan, who was the first to declare for the seat and earned the endorsement of local mayors, came in third (See
related story, page A3).
Staff Writer
By DANNIE OLIVEAUX
Both sides report feeling harassed in rift over home business.
By JUSTINE FREDERIKSEN
Staff Writer
shot in three of her home’s windows.
Cronan, who lives on the 200 block of
Flower Meadows Street in Port Orchard,
said she believed the attack was part of an
ongoing dispute with Keehn, whom she
alleges has been running a hair salon out
of her home without a business license
and in defiance of a city “stop-work”
order.
Keehn, 30, said she filed for permission
from the city of Port Orchard to operate
a hair salon out of her home on the 2300
block of Flower Avenue soon after pur-
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Neighbor denies pellet gun shooting
Cody Wright from Milford, Utah, got a mouth full of mud and a zero score after falling off Strawberry Delight in the
Saddle Bronc Riding competition Wednesday night at the Kitsap County Stampede. The fair runs through Sunday.
Port Orchard
Tensions between two Port Orchard
neighbors that erupted after one attempted to open a home business last year led
both women to head down to the Kitsap
County Courthouse Monday and file restraining orders against each other.
Shelia Cronan, 49, said she filed a restraining order against Amber Keehn
after returning home from a camping trip
Aug. 17 and discovering pellets had been
Myhre’s
building
finally sold
SEE CRASH, A25
The wrong-way driver
was pronounced dead at
the scene after his car collided with a pickup three
miles east of Port Orchard
on State Highway 16 about
10 p.m. on May 22, reported the Washington State
Patrol.
KOMO 4 News report-
SEE MYHRE, A25
New shellfish
hatchery opens
in Manchester
SEAGULL SPLAT, WINGS AND MORE
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